Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 In my books I strongly advocate that a rope is carried in the party for use as a safeguard if necessary , or to aid retreat .
2 Where there are complicated angles in the shoulders I generally find that the most straightforward method is to mark off directly from the parts to which the rail is to be jointed .
3 She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them .
4 That report says : ’ We do not recommend a requirement to indicate animal rearing methods on foods labels we therefore recommend that the possibility of drawing up a standard system , which clearly defines terms to indicate welfare-orientated rearing methods , should be considered ’ .
5 When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’
6 The survivors themselves later said that Arafat only wanted more martyrs to capture the attention of the world .
7 In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship .
8 In this case , the plaintiff purchased a painting of Salisbury Cathedral from the defendants who innocently misrepresented that it had been painted by John Constable .
9 However , as an act of self-advocacy it is both a very powerful and an excellent riposte to the ‘ trailing edge ’ of those professionals and parents who still insist that people with learning difficulties say nothing worth hearing .
10 On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery .
11 Even employers who steadfastly denied that they would ever use such a method usually indicated that they knew of those who did .
12 ‘ Take my kids to sea for two weeks , just two weeks , and if at the end of those two weeks you really believe that the cruise-cure wo n't work , or if you 're convinced that you 're the wrong guy for the job , then send the twins home .
13 Indeed , increased exchangeable sodium in diabetics has been reported by one group of research workers who also showed that diuretic therapy lowered blood pressure while reversing the 10 per cent increased exchangeable sodium to normal ( De Chatel et al , 1977 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) .
14 Although I myself believe that this statement is broadly true there are a number of serious research workers who now believe that it is false .
15 When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other .
16 And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women .
17 By our attitudes we sometimes suggest that they have no ideas at all .
18 And in posing these questions I well appreciate that the terms in which I five is presented are exactly those in the approved structure plan , with the exception of the deletion of the specific references to certain town centres and provision .
19 This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people .
20 Legislation has in fact been issued under general treaty powers which expressly states that it is intended to implement the Social Charter , such as Directive 91/533 on contracts of employment , which , since it was made under Article 100 which requires unanimity in the Council , must at the least not have been opposed by the United Kingdom minister .
21 That corrosive fear has now spread through industries and professions who once felt that if they did n't have the fabled ‘ job for life ’ , they could at least be assured of adequate warning of impending unemployment , reasonable compensation , a decent level of benefit linked to their final salary , and a realistic chance of a fresh start with another company .
22 In her heart of hearts she still suspected that it was , but the charmed garden of Sebastian and his friends opened to her so easily , so seductively , that what could she do but step inside ?
23 While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods .
24 Once Charlie had returned to the relief trenches he quickly discovered that only three men in his section of ten had survived the charge , and there was no sign of Tommy .
25 In his memoirs he rightly insists that the 1980 election ‘ did not represent a revolution in American values .
26 Patients who mistakenly believe that they are sensitive to food often put themselves on increasingly strict diets as their symptoms persist , and they may become seriously malnourished .
27 Regrettably , using the same experimental techniques he also found that red-leaf cabbage , beets and cauliflower have the opposite effect and appear to be carcinogenic .
28 We are as anxious as anyone to provide good working conditions for public servants ; but would the public servants themselves honestly contend that working conditions during eight hours of the day should , in the present emergency , take priority over the living conditions of mothers and children for the whole twenty-four hours ?
29 Use a green pencil to underline all the foods or meals you normally eat that you think are nutritionally sound and that you do not want to change .
30 The help facility is very useful , not only for training new users , but also for infrequent users who suddenly find that they have to take over urgent work at short notice .
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